# weapon
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English wepen, from Old English wǣpn, from Proto-West Germanic *wāpn, from Proto-Germanic *wēpną (“weapon”), of unknown origin, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *wēbnom. Cognate with Scots wapyn, wappen (“weapon”), West Frisian wapen (“weapon”), Dutch wapen (“weapon; coat of arms”), Low German wapen (“weapon”), German Waffe (“weapon”) and Wappen (“coat of arms”), Danish våben (“weapon; coat of arms”) Swedish vapen (“weapon; coat of arms”), Norwegian Bokmål våpen (“weapon”), Icelandic vopn (“weapon”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈwɛp.ən/
** Audio (US):(file)
* Hyphenation: weap‧on
** Rhymes: -ɛpən
* (obsolete) IPA: /ˈwiːp.ən/

### Noun

weapon (plural weapons)
* An instrument of attack or defense in combat or hunting, e.g. most guns, missiles, or swords; arm.
    Hyponyms: see Thesaurus:weapon
    The club that is now mostly used for golf was once a common weapon.
** 2013 July 20, “Old soldiers?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. […] One thing that is true, though, is that murder rates have fallen over the centuries, as policing has spread and the routine carrying of weapons has diminished. Modern society may not have done anything about war. But peace is a lot more peaceful.
* An instrument or other means of harming or exerting control over another.
    Money is the main weapon of modern oligarchs.
** 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:“[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
** 2011 January 15, Phil Dawkes, “Stoke 2-0 Bolton”, in BBC:Rory Delap's long throw-ins are a familiar weapon to the Potters' opponents but this does not make them any easier to defend against.
* (informal, humorous) A tool of any kind.
    Choose your weapon.
* (UK, Ireland, slang, derogatory) An idiot, an oaf, a fool, a tool; a contemptible or incompetent person.
    Synonyms: moron, arse
* (Australia, slang) A very skilled, competent, or capable person or thing worthy of awe.
    Synonyms: legend, champion, unit
** 2006 May 12, Joshua Dowling, “Brains or brawn”, in The Sydney Morning Herald‎:It has a whopping 5.4-litre V8, with a supercharger bolted to the top of it to help low-end pulling power. In short, it's a weapon and will happily dust a Porsche as easy as brushing your teeth.
** 2016 November 21, Marcus Tamp, “Hardcore 2016 Focus: Vices”, in The Music‎:We played Endless Heights' record release show earlier this year and during their set Christian from Endless Heights' lung collapsed, but he finished the set like an absolute weapon.
** 2020 October, Alley Pascoe, “Megan Washington's Love Letter To RuPaul”, in Marie Claire‎:I adore her in Easter Parade and Meet Me in St. Louis, but my favourite performance of hers is her concert at [New York’s] Carnegie Hall. She’s a total weapon on that stage.
** 2021 April 20, Will Swanton, “From one goofy-footer to another: American Caroline Marks 'stoked' to win Narrabeen Classic”, in The Australian‎:American teenager Caroline Marks was trotting across the sand on her dream day at North Narrabeen when Luke Egan called out to her: "You weapon!" [...] Egan was mentoring Marks in between commentary stints. He was one of the people to chair the weapon up the beach, calling out to her: "What did I tell you!"
* (rare, slang) The human genital organ.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:genitalia
** 2013 December 3, Beamon (lyrics and music), “Lord Love Me” (track 2), in The BeamGod: Lost Files‎:Young motherfucking legend, niggas just pretending I spit my shit, infectious, don't come in my section Or get wet bitch with that weapon Lift the pussy, yeah I bench press it, and I been stressing since a adolescent
** 2017 April 13, Mavado (lyrics and music), “Ride All Night (My Kinda Girl)”‎ (in Jamaican Creole):Weh you get da pussy deh from? Hey, gyal me love you Md love the way you use your weapon Gyal, your pussy tight like a vice grip(please add an English translation of this quotation)
** 2019 February 14, “Jimmy Neutron” (track 4), in NQTATS aka CAVIN KON (lyrics), A Taste Of My Heart‎:Bring my baby a present Put your head on the dresser She open her legs, then I whip out my weapon Sj immortal, the fuck is checking
** 2019 June 29, “3 Minutes”, Rio Da Yung OG (lyrics)‎:I bust a bitch down in forty-five seconds If it's good, Imma pop two Percs, and come back for seconds She probably got a felony, that's an illegal weapon Stick my whole hand in her pussy, I was tryna stretch it

#### Hyponyms

* ABC weapon
* anti-tank guided weapon (ATGW)
* anti-tank weapon
* assault weapon
* atomic weapon
* binary weapon
* biological weapon
* bioweapon
* chemical weapon
* cold weapon
* conventional weapon
* crew-served weapon
* cyberweapon
* digital weapon
* doomsday weapon
* drop weapon
* energy weapon
* forum weapon
* gun
* mass destruction weapon
* murder weapon
* nuclear weapon
* personal defense weapon
* pistol
* radiological weapon
* ranged weapon
* section automatic weapon
* siege weapon
* space weapon
* squad automatic weapon
* superweapon
* sword
* tectonic weapon
* thermobaric weapon
* thermonuclear weapon
* weapon of mass destruction (WMD)
* weapon of wholesale destruction

#### Derived terms

* academic weapon
* beweapon
* nonweapon
* superweaponry
* weaponed
* weaponeer
* weaponization
* weaponize
* weaponless
* weaponlike
* weapon oath
* weapon of mass disruption
* weaponry
* weapon-salve
* weapons-grade
* weaponsmith
* weaponsmithing

#### Derived terms

* Assault Weapons Ban (AWB)
* assault with a deadly weapon (ADW)
* nuclear weapons inheritance project (NWIP)
* nuclear weapons state (NWS)
* personal defence weapon
* weapon-schaw
* weapons free
* weapons hold
* weapons tight

#### Translations

Abkhaz: абџьар (abdžar)
Adyghe: ӏашэ (ʼašɛ), ашэ (ašɛ)
Afrikaans: wapen (af)
Albanian: armë (sq) f, shkluhë f (archaic)
Amharic: የጦር መሣሪያ (yäṭor mäśariya)
Arabic: سِلَاح m (silāḥ), أَسْلِحَة (ar) pl (ʔasliḥa)
Egyptian Arabic: سلاح m (silāḥ)
Aragonese: arma
Aramaic:
Hebrew: זינא m (zaynā’)
Syriac: ܙܝܢܐ m (zaynā’)
Armenian: զենք (hy) (zenkʻ)
Aromanian: armã f, tufeche
Asturian: arma f
Avar: ярагъ (jarağ)
Azerbaijani: silah (az), yaraq
Bashkir: ҡорал (qoral)
Basque: arma (eu)
Bats: გერწ class dd (gerc̣)
Belarusian: збро́я f (zbrója), ару́жжа n (arúžža)
Bengali: অস্ত্র (bn) (ostro), হাতিয়ার (bn) (hatiẏar)
Breton: arm (br) m
Bulgarian: оръ́жие (bg) n (orǎ́žie)
Burmese: လက်နက် (my) (laknak)
Buryat: зэбсэг (zebseg)
Carpathian Rusyn: збро́я f (zbrója)
Catalan: arma (ca) f
Cebuano: hinagiban
Chechen: герз (gerz)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 武器 (mou$^5$ hei$^3$), 兵器 (bing$^1$ hei$^3$)
Dungan: җүнчи (žünči)
Hokkien: 武器 (zh-min-nan) (bú-khì)
Mandarin: 武器 (zh) (wǔqì), 兵器 (zh) (bīngqì), 軍器 / 军器 (zh) (jūnqì)
Wu: 武器 ($^6$vu-chi)
Chukchi: ирвын (irvyn)
Czech: zbraň (cs) f
Dalmatian: jarma f
Danish: våben (da) n
Dutch: wapen (nl) n
Egyptian: (jry), (ꜥḥꜣw)
Esperanto: armilo
Estonian: relv (et)
Extremaduran: arma
Faroese: vápn n
Finnish: ase (fi), astalo (fi)
French: arme (fr) f
Friulian: arme f
Galician: arma (gl) f
Georgian: იარაღი (ka) (iaraɣi), საჭურველი (sač̣urveli)
Old Georgian: საბრძოლელი (sabrʒoleli), საბრძოლი (sabrʒoli), საჭურველი (sač̣urveli), საჭურავი (sač̣uravi), საჭური (sač̣uri)
German: Waffe (de) f
Gothic: 𐍅𐌴𐍀𐌽 n (wēpn)
Greek: όπλο (el) n (óplo)
Ancient: ὅπλον n (hóplon), (Epic) ἄορ n (áor)
Greenlandic: sakku
Guaraní: mboka (firearm)
Gujarati: શસ્ત્ર (gu) (śastra), હથિયાર n (hathiyār)
Hebrew: כְּלִי נֶשֶׁק (he) m (kli néshek)
Hiligaynon: hinganiban
Hindi: हथियार (hi) m (hathiyār), शस्त्र (hi) m (śastra), आयुध (hi) m (āyudh)
Hungarian: fegyver (hu)
Icelandic: vopn (is) n
Ido: armo (io)
Ilocano: igam
Indonesian: senjata (id)
Ingush: герз (gerz)
Interlingua: arma
Irish: arm
Isnag: ixam
Italian: arma (it) f
Japanese: 武器 (ja) (ぶき, buki), 兵器 (ja) (へいき, heiki)
Javanese: gaman (jv)
Kannada: ಆಯುಧ (kn) (āyudha)
Karachay-Balkar: сауут (sawut)
Kazakh: қару (qaru)
Khiamniungan Naga: tūo
Khmer: គ្រឿងអាវុធ (krɨəng ʼaavut), អាវុធ (km) (ʼaavut)
Kongo: buta
Korean: 무기(武器) (ko) (mugi), 병기(兵器) (ko) (byeonggi)
Kumyk: савут (sawut)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: چەک (ckb) (çek)
Northern Kurdish: çek (ku) f, sîleh (ku) m
Kyrgyz: курал (ky) (kural), курал-жарак (kural-jarak), жарак (ky) (jarak)
Ladin: erma f
Lao: ຄຳເພິງ (kham phœng), ອາວຸດ (lo) (ʼā wut)
Latin: tēlum n, arma (la) n pl
Latvian: ierocis m
Lithuanian: ginklas m
Low German: Wapen n
Lü: ᦁᦱᦞᦴᧉᦒ (ʼaavuu²th)
Luxembourgish: Waff (lb) f
Macedonian: оружје n (oružje)
Malay: senjata (ms)
Malayalam: ആയുധം (ml) (āyudhaṁ)
Maltese: arma f
Marathi: शस्त्र (śastra), हत्यार n (hatyār)
Middle Low German: wapen (wâpen)
Mirandese: arma
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: зэвсэг (mn) (zevseg)
Mongolian: ᠵᠡᠪᠰᠡᠭ (ǰebseg)
Nogai: савыт (savıt)
Northern Sami: vearju
Norwegian:
Bokmål: våpen (no) n
Nynorsk: våpen n
Occitan: arma (oc) f
Odia: ଶସ୍ତ୍ର (or) (śastra)
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: орѫжиѥ n (orǫžije)
Old East Slavic: оружие n (oružije)
Old English: wǣpn n
Old Galician-Portuguese: arma
Old Norse: vápn n
Pali: āvudha n
Pannonian Rusyn: оружиє n (oružije)
Pashto: وسله (ps) f (wasla), اسلحه (ps) f (asleha)
Persian:
Iranian Persian: سِلاح (selâh), اَسْلَحِه (aslahe), اَسْلِحِه (aslehe)
Polish: broń (pl) f, oręż (pl) m
Portuguese: arma (pt) f
Punjabi: ਹਥਿਆਰ (hathiāra)
Romanian: armă (ro) f
Romansch: arma f
Russian: ору́жие (ru) n (orúžije)
Sanskrit: आयुध (sa) n (āyudha)
Sardinian: àrma f
Saterland Frisian: Woapen n
Scots: wapyn, wappen
Scottish Gaelic: arm (gd) m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: о̀рӯжје n
Roman: òrūžje (sh) n
Shan: လၢၵ်ႈၼၢၵ်ႈ (shn) (lāak nāak), ၵွင်ႈၵၢင်ႇ (shn) (kāung kàang)
Sicilian: arma (scn) f
Slovak: zbraň (sk) f
Slovene: orožje n
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: broń f
Upper Sorbian: bróń f
Spanish: arma (es) f
Swahili: silaha (sw)
Swedish: vapen (sv) n or n pl
Tagalog: sandata
Tajik: силоҳ (tg) (siloh), яроқ (yaroq), аслиҳа pl (asliha)
Tamil: ஆயுதம் (ta) (āyutam)
Taos: hų́łoliną
Tatar: корал (tt) (qoral)
Telugu: ఆయుధము (te) (āyudhamu)
Thai: อาวุธ (th) (aa-wút)
Tibetan: མཚོན་ཆ (mtshon cha), གོ་མཚོན (go mtshon)
Tigrinya: ብረት (bərät)
Tundra Nenets: мирв (ḿirw°)
Tupinambá: popesûara
Turkish: silah (tr), yarak (tr), savut (tr)
Turkmen: ýarag
Ukrainian: збро́я (uk) f (zbrója), ору́жжя n (orúžžja) (obsolete)
Urdu: ہَتِھیار m (hathiyār), اَسْلِحَہ f pl (asliha), اَسْلَحَہ f pl (aslaha)
Uyghur: قورال (qoral)
Uzbek: qurol (uz), yarogʻ (uz), siloh (uz) (dated)
Venetan: arma (vec)
Vietnamese: vũ khí (vi) (武器), binh khí (vi) (兵器)
Welsh: arf (cy) m or f, erfyn m
West Frisian: wapen
Yiddish: וואָפֿן m or n (vofn), כּלי־זיין m or n (klezayen)
Zazaki: çek
Zhuang: cungqcax, vujgi :

### Verb

weapon (third-person singular simple present weapons, present participle weaponing, simple past and past participle weaponed)
* (transitive) To equip with a weapon; to arm.
** 1868, Henry Wilson, History of the Reconstruction Measures of the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses, 1865-68, page 425:[…] the friends of the country and of the equal rights of all men, the friends of enfranchising the black man and of weaponing his hand for defense; the friends of taking the governments of these rebel States out of the hands of their rebel possessors, […]

#### Translations
### See also

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### References

* ↑ Krapp, George Philip (1925) The English Language in America‎, volume II, New York: Century Co. for the Modern Language Association of America, →OCLC, page 91.
* ↑ Hall, Joseph Sargent (1942 March 2) “1. The Vowel Sounds of Stressed Syllables”, in The Phonetics of Great Smoky Mountain Speech (American Speech: Reprints and Monographs; 4), New York: King's Crown Press, →DOI, →ISBN, § 4, page 21.